Day 4

Leaves of Grass Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read the following poems: "Sometimes With One I Love"; "Song of the Open Road"; and "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer."

Common Core Objectives

1

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.6

2

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.2

3

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.4

4

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.5

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

"Sometimes With One I Love"

In this four-line poem, the speaker says that even if his love for someone else...

Leaves of Grass Questions and Answers

There are the obvious pastoral elements to Leaves of Grass. There is a strong nature element that runs through Whitman's work. The title is also a pun on the word grass. Many artists, in Whitman's day, used the word "grass" to represent more minor...